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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2018Learning femininity in colonial India, 1820–1932
by Tim Allender, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie
Learning femininity in colonial India explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932. Using a broad framework the book examines the many life experiences of these women and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over this long period of study. Drawing on a rich documentary record from archives in the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, North America, Ireland and Australia this book builds a clear picture of the colonial-configured changes that influenced women interacting with the colonial state. This book will appeal to students and academics working on the history of empire and imperialism, gender studies, postcolonial studies and the history of education.
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2021Practising shame
Female honour in later medieval England
by Mary C. Flannery, Anke Bernau, David Matthews
Practicing shame investigates how the literature of medieval England encouraged women to safeguard their honour by cultivating hypervigilance against the possibility of sexual shame. A combination of inward reflection and outward comportment, this practice of 'shamefastness' was believed to reinforce women's chastity of mind and body, and to communicate that chastity to others by means of conventional gestures. The book uncovers the paradoxes and complications that emerged from these emotional practices, as well as the ways in which they were satirised and reappropriated by male authors. Working at the intersection of literary studies, gender studies and the history of emotions, it transforms our understanding of the ethical construction of femininity in the past and provides a new framework for thinking about honourable womanhood now and in the years to come.
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April 2019Spiritual Growth
by Rabbi Paul Steinberg
This book began with Paul Steinberg's realization that although religions are struggling to meet the needs and trends of our modern age, spirituality is not. Its contemporary manifestations continue to thrive, and Jews can be found throughout all varieties of spiritual leadership in America.Facing the fact that, for whatever reason, Jewish leaders simply have not done a good job of translating the ancient, spiritual wisdom of their beliefs into contemporary language and images that resonate with mass appeal, Rabbi Steinberg knew that the faith of his fathers was ready for a new spiritual message. And so he has written it―a message that is both particular to Judaism and uses Jewish language and text as starting points for a view that is universal enough to include spiritual concepts, terms, and expressions from many other spiritual traditions.Spiritual Growth: A Contemporary Jewish Approach provides both a language and a set of Jewish spiritual principles that are accessible and integrated with contemporary life, as well as being deep and authentically real (i.e., not “dumbed down” for anyone). It is a work that emerged out of Rabbi Steinberg's own personal experiences, pains, and spiritual journey―the trials and growth documented in his highly successful book Recovery, the 12 Steps, and Jewish Spirituality.There are not a lot of works like this. There are books on Jewish scholarship, history, and theology. But books on Jewish spirituality tend usually to focus on a particular motif, such as the feminine, grief, aging, or Kabbalistic biblical interpretations. Spiritual Growth: A Contemporary Jewish Approach presents its message through the psycho-spiritual world view of 2018 but without the language and narrative of a therapist. It is an important contribution to the spiritual-seeking community at large, to Jews who have become alienated from their faith, and to anyone interested in learning more about what a historically vibrant spirituality can bring to today's troubled world.
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Mind, Body, SpiritThe Way of Inanna
A Heroine’s Guide to Living Unapologetically
by Seana Zelazo
Myth Made ManifestOver 4000 years ago in ancient Sumer, some of the first mythographers inscribed the stories and myths of the Goddess Inanna on clay tablets in cuneiform. These incredible findings were unearthed, and the fragments were painstakingly pieced together and translated. What they discovered were the ways Inanna was heralded as a goddess who embodies polarities: impatient and deliberate, an attentive lover and fierce warrior, connected to fertility as well as death-making her an accessible, relatable, and inspiring representation of the Divine Feminine as she stands in her power and multidimensionality. The Way of Inanna is a field guide to heart-centered living through the wisdom of the Sumerian Goddess of Love. Each chapter deconstructs sacred narratives in which the Goddess navigates the seven gates of her soul's journey from awakening to ascension. More than a simple retelling, the book is myth made manifest in which Inanna becomes a means to accessing our own ascension and alchemical magic within our modern, contemporary context.
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The ArtsNovember 2011Nationalising Femininity
Culture, sexuality and British cinema in the Second World War
by Christine Gledhill
Case studies examine competing definitions of feminism, contoured by The Second World War, circulating in cinema, women's magazines, social policies, government pamphlets, fashion, and broadcasting ;
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Literature & Literary StudiesFebruary 2000Feminism, femininity and popular culture
by Joanne Hollows
Accessible, introductory student guide which identifies key feminist approaches to popular culture from the 1960s to the present.. The only introduction to both feminist cultural studies and feminism and popular culture published in the UK.. Presents its information in a reader friendly series of case studies on: women's film romantic fiction soap opera consumption and material culture fashion and beauty proactices youth culture and popular music. Will appeal to students across a wide range of disciplines as a variety of popular cultural forms are discussed. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2016Learning femininity in colonial India, 1820–1932
by Tim Allender, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie
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Humanities & Social SciencesSeptember 2020Queer Muslim diasporas in contemporary literature and film
by Alberto Fernández Carbajal, Amina Yaqin
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2019Practicing shame
by Mary C. Flannery, Anke Bernau, David Matthews
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Children's & young adult fiction & true stories2018The New Girl Code
by Niki Smit
Tumi Letsatsi is a 13-year old melanin kween living in Rondebosch, Cape Town. Her favourite colour is yellow, she's still trying to figure out how not to dent her afro on the bus, and how one goes about (ahem!) “french kissing”. She’s a little awkward and a lot uncertain about her future, friendships and how to put together a cool outfit! But then she stumbles across the magic of coding and creates an app called “Project Prep” that goes viral and rockets her and her friends to fame. Then everything starts to fall apart, as she deals with a catfish who befriends her and steals her code, nasty rumours at school and the newfound attention of a crush. The New Girl Code (by Niki Smit, locally edited by Buhle Ngaba) is about the wonders of working in tech, aimed at girls and young women aged 9-15. The project is an initiative of Inspiring Fifty and based on an idea by Janneke Niessen.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2024Ageing and new intimacies
Gender, sexuality and temporality in an English salsa scene
by Sarah Milton
The 'baby boom' generation, born between the 1940s and the 1960s, is often credited with pioneering new and creative ways of relating, doing intimacy and making families. With this cohort of men and women in Britain now entering mid and later life, they are also said to be revolutionising the experience of ageing. Are the romantic practices of this 'revolutionary cohort' breaking with tradition and allowing new ways of understanding and doing ageing and relating to emerge? Based on ethnographic fieldwork in salsa classes and life history interviews, this book documents the meanings of desire and romance, and 'new' intimacies, among women in mid and later life. Challenging notions of the revolutionary 'baby boomers', it details how these practices, experiences and identities are intersected and informed by age, class, whiteness, and a pervasive concern to remain respectable.
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August 2019Marcel Proust und die Frauen
18. Publikation der Marcel Proust Gesellschaft
by Barbara Vinken, Sprenger Ulrike, Ulrike Sprenger
Ohne die Frauen ist Prousts Schreiben nicht zu verstehen. Bereits in der Eingangsszene der Recherche ist Imagination mit Weiblichkeit verknüpft, wenn der Träumer eine Frau halluziniert, die aus einer falschen Lage seines Schenkels heraus geboren wird, so wie Eva einer Rippe Adams entsprungen ist. Schließlich identifiziert sich der Erzähler selbst mit einer Frau, wenn er mit dem Buch, das er im Begriff zu schreiben ist, »schwanger« geht. Das Weibliche ist so nicht nur Bestandteil des Romans, sondern konstitutiv für Prousts Schreiben selbst, das man eine écriture au féminin nennen könnte.Wie kein anderer vor und nach ihm erforscht Proust zudem das Rätsel weiblichen, genauer lesbischen Begehrens. Albertine ist kein Mann in weiblicher Verkleidung, sondern Figur des Femininen par excellence – Figur des Flüchtigen, Opaken, Fragmentarischen und somit Inbegriff von Prousts Modernität. Der vorliegende Band versammelt die Beiträge des internationalen wissenschaftlichen Symposions, das die Marcel Proust Gesellschaft 2017 in München veranstaltet hat. Nicht nur biografische Quellenforschung, sondern Prousts weibliches Schreiben und sein Schreiben des Weiblichen stehen im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchungen.
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August 2019Marcel Proust und die Frauen
18. Publikation der Marcel Proust Gesellschaft
by Barbara Vinken, Ulrike Sprenger
Ohne die Frauen ist Prousts Schreiben nicht zu verstehen. Bereits in der Eingangsszene der Recherche ist Imagination mit Weiblichkeit verknüpft, wenn der Träumer eine Frau halluziniert, die aus einer falschen Lage seines Schenkels heraus geboren wird, so wie Eva einer Rippe Adams entsprungen ist. Schließlich identifiziert sich der Erzähler selbst mit einer Frau, wenn er mit dem Buch, das er im Begriff zu schreiben ist, »schwanger« geht. Das Weibliche ist so nicht nur Bestandteil des Romans, sondern konstitutiv für Prousts Schreiben selbst, das man eine écriture au féminin nennen könnte.Wie kein anderer vor und nach ihm erforscht Proust zudem das Rätsel weiblichen, genauer lesbischen Begehrens. Albertine ist kein Mann in weiblicher Verkleidung, sondern Figur des Femininen par excellence – Figur des Flüchtigen, Opaken, Fragmentarischen und somit Inbegriff von Prousts Modernität. Der vorliegende Band versammelt die Beiträge des internationalen wissenschaftlichen Symposions, das die Marcel Proust Gesellschaft 2017 in München veranstaltet hat. Nicht nur biografische Quellenforschung, sondern Prousts weibliches Schreiben und sein Schreiben des Weiblichen stehen im Mittelpunkt der Untersuchungen.
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March 2022Women and Pilgrimage
by E. Moore Quinn, Alison T. Smith, Sharenda Holland Barlar, Maryjane Dunn, Susan Dunn-Hensley, Shirley du Plooy, Vivienne Keely, Sarah E. Owens, Emma Rochester, Lisa F. Signori
Women and Pilgrimage presents scholarly essays that address the lacunae in the literature on this topic. The content includes well-trodden domains of pilgrimage scholarship like sacred sites and holy places. In addition, the book addresses some of the less-well-known dimensions of pilgrimage, such as the performances that take place along pilgrims' paths; the ephemeral nature of identifying as a pilgrim, and the economic, social and cultural dimensions of migratory travel. Most importantly, the book's feminist lens encourages readers to consider questions of authenticity, essentialism, and even what is means to be a "woman pilgrim". The volume's six sections are entitled: Questions of Authenticity; Performances and Celebratory Reclamations; Walking Out: Women Forging Their Own Paths; Women Saints: Their Influence and Their Power; Sacred Sites: Their Lineages and Their Uses; and Different Migratory Paths. Each section will enrich readers' knowledge of the experiences of pilgrim women. Readers' understanding will be further enhanced by the book's: · interdisciplinary nature: The contributors hail from a wide range of disciplines, including Anthropology, Political Science, French, Spanish, Fine Art, and Religious Studies; · uniqueness: The text brings together previously scattered resources into one volume; · feminist perspective: Much of the subject matter utilizes feminist theories and methodologies and argues that further research will be welcome. The book will be of interest to scholars of pilgrimage studies in general as well as those interested in women, travel, tourism, and the variety of religious experiences.
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Medieval historyMarch 2003Medieval maidens
Young women and gender in England, 1270–1540
by Kim M. Phillips
The first study on medieval women to treat young women or 'maidens' separately and at length. The book makes a contribution to gender studies through its study of medieval girls' acquisition of appropriate roles and identities, and their own attitudes towards these roles. Examines the experiences and voices of young womanhood. Provides insights into ideals of feminine gender roles and identities at different social levels.
